• 11 ~--------------------------~----,----"--.C.--------------------------~-------------• Ii WINSroN-SALEMJoURNAL -,..-,. Wednesday,May 6, 1998 II Pro Hockey I C3 \9 Baseball I C4, cs \9 Pro Basketball I C6 It's easy to see who wins (and loses) when Tar Heels, Wolfpack play in Charlotte TAKEN TO SCHOOL uck chasers and other notes: unless they pay a will be played for ESPN on a Thursday North Carolina and N.C. State surcharge. night early in the season (and presumably Bmoved their next two football games Now these ath• would require an overnight stay for to Charlotte, which should raise ques• letics departments many fans). tions among their fans. Such as: Do these are informing · The $30 game tickets will be about sports bosses care about anything other fans that they will $5 higher than on campus, and the col• than our money? have to drive the leges will charge their own students $8 Sometimes you wonder. Carolina 143 miles from Ra• for tickets instead of awarding them free raised and spent $51 million expanding leigh and 129 tickets for home games as a sop for Kenan Stadium to 60,000 seats but now miles from Chapel paying student athletics fees. Add up the promotes the misguided notion of playing Hill to renew a ri• costs and it's clear that the only winners in fancy Ericsson Stadium, which seats valry that belongs in are Charlotte-area fans and the schools' 72,685. the neighbor- bank accounts. State raised $22 million for the new hood. The 1998 Coach Mike O'Cain openly acknowl• Raleigh basketball arena and told longtime game, State's home game, will take edges that N.C. State is hitting the road to AP PHOTO holders of football season tickets that place on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. UNC and N.C. State fans will pay more to see their teams play at Ericsson Stadium. they could lose their current seat locations The 1999 game, Carolina's home game, See RAWLINGS, Page C6 Curry Prieto is self-assured hoping after her ACC victory By John Dell to .end JOURNAL REPORTER Marta Prieto has had to battle injuries, a language barrier and self doubt. With a stroke average that hovered around 80, Prieto - a Wake Forest freshman - didn't have many positive thoughts about her game heading into the ACC Championships in mid• slump April. Despite nagging shoulder pain, and a sore back that has bothered her since she arrived at Wake Forest, Prieto won the • Hornets guard says team has· ACC title with a 5-over-par 221 over 54 holes. She had rounds of 72, 76 and 73 at the challenging Grandover Course in Greens• its bad game out of way, will boro. "I hadn't played well all year, so I'm not sure where that all make shots this time around came from," said Prieto, who became the fourth Deacon to win the ACC women's title. "The most pressure was that last day, By John Delong because l knew that Jenny (Chuasiriporn of Duke) was right JOURNAL REPORTER there chasing me." I Prieto, recently named All-ACCand co-rookie of the year, CHICAGO fended off second-ranked Chuasiriporn, who was trying to win Dell Curry is shooting 40.6 percent from the field in her third straight ACC title. A the NBA playoffs, and only 33.3 percent from 3-point tip from Coach Dianne Dailey range. helped Prieto' s putting, and In the Charlotte Hornets' 83- 70 loss to the Chicago NCAA Golf that carried her to the title. Bulls to open their Eastern Conference semifinal Dailey pointed out that Prie• round on Sunday, Cur• COMPILED BY JOHN DELL to' sputter was a little long, so an ry was I of 7 from the •What: NCAA Women's inch or so was cut off the club field and I of 3 from 3- East Regional to give Prieto better control. point range. •Where: Duke Golf Prieto, who was averaging That's not going to Club, Durham about 37 putts for 18 holes, said get it done, especially •When: Thursday-Satur• that change was the biggest against a Chicago day factor in her first collegiate vic• team that is trying to •Field: 19 teams, includ• tory. ing Campbell, Duke, Fur• win its third straight man, North Carolina and "I knew that I could play NBA title and its sixth • 8 p.m.: CharlotteHor • Wake Forest. better, so I wasn't totally sur• in the past eight years. nets at Chicago Bulls, TNT •Players to Watch: Jen• prised that I won," said Prieto, "Ifwe shoot the way (Ch. 49) ny Chuasiriporn (Duke); Al• whose best previous finish this we're capable of exandra Armas 0f'/ake For• season was 19th, at the Betsy shooting, we're going • 10:30: Los Angeles est); Reilley Rankin (Geor• Rawls Longhorn Tournament in to be right there in the Lakers at Seattle Supersonics; gia); Jennifer Hanna (Fur• Austin, Texas, in March. game with a chance to TNT (Ch. 49) man); Megan Morgan Now that she has a shot of win," Curry said yes- (UNC); Nicolle Flood (UNC• confidence, Prieto is hoping she terday. "But if we Wilmirigton). and her teammates can put to• shoot like we did Sunday, we're going to lose again. It's •Notes: Nicolle Flood of gether three good rounds in this as simple as that." UNG-Wilmington qualified week's NCM East Regional at So that's the challenge the Hornets face as they enter for the regional as an indi• the Duke Golf Club. The 54-hole, tonight's Game Two in the best-of-seven series at the vidual. Wake Forest, a three-day tournament will start United Center. regionalchamp in 1994 and Thursday, with 19 teams compet• Shoot better than the collective 35.8 percent they '95, is making its sixth ing. The top eight teams will straight appearance in re• shot in the series opener, or this could be a very, very gional play. Last year in advance to the NCM Champion• quick series. Bloomington, 111., the Dea• ships, scheduled May 20-23 in Curry has the shooter's mentality that a hot streak is cons were fifth .... The top Madison, WISc. always waiting to happen, and so he said he thinks that eight teams and top two in• Prieto, 19, receives constant the Hornets merely got their one bad game out of the dividuals not on one of those treatment for her injured back, way on Sunday. teams will advance to the and muscle spasms in her "We shot the ball well all year, so just because we NCAA Championships, shoulder force her to use a pull• had one bad shooting game doesn't mean we're going scheduled May 20-23 in cart instead of carrying her to get down on ourselves or we're going to lose our Madison, Wisc., ... No. 3 bag. confidence," he said. "We've got to look at it like all Georgia is the highest• When asked to describe her year long we've shot the basketball, and if we get those ranked team in the regional; JOURNAL PHOTO BY CHRISTINE RUCKER Duke is fifth. See MARTA PRIETO, Page CS Marta Prieto, a freshman at Wake Forest, practices at the school's golf complex. See HORNETS, Page C6 Keys hand Warthogs PINCH-HITTER: Hendrick second straight loss standing in for ailing brother By Mike Mulhern races off and knows he'll back next year. "On • It's Frederick's turn for late-inning heroics JOURNAL REPORTER the other side, it's helped him to have the time Rick Hendrick is getting closer to remission away from the sport because it allows him to JOURNAL STAFF REPORT vanced to second on a bunt from in his battle with cancer, his brother John says, rest," Hendrick said. "It's helped him in his FREDERICK, Md. Miguel Mejia. Darrell Dent struck but it has not been an easy fight. treatment this year. Frederick scored two runs in the out for the second out, and Craig "Rick is doing well, and he was very close to "It's very difficult for him, because he's used bottom of the eighth to give the Daedelow doubled to left to score remission on the last test he had," Hendrick to being so involved in all of it and making Winston-SalemWarthogs a 3-2 loss Fowler to tie the score at 2. said. "His attitude is very good. That, to me, in decisions. And it's been hard on me not to pick in a Carolina League game. Ivanon Coffie walked to put run• light of taking him completely out of the racing up the phone at times and call and ask 'He~ The defeat in the second of a ners on first and second. Jason Se~ this year, is good. what do I do about this?' Because I know he' coda came in relief and gave up a 1 four-game series with the Keys "The downside is, the treatment is so hard on got the answers and the experience. But I can't base hit to Chris Bryant, which him that some days he can't even talk to me. We :~ marks the second loss in a row for use that; I have to rely on the crew chiefs and 1 scored Daedelow to give the Keys a talk a few times every week about things, just to Randy Dorton in the engine department. So we \ the Warthogs, their longest losing 3-2 lead. streak of the season. see how he's doing.